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| Gertz: Stratcom Deploys Bombers Near Baltics |
| 2015-06-07 |
| [FreeBeacon] Three nuclear-capable bombers deployed to Europe this week for large-scale military exercises near Russia, the Strategic Command announced Friday night. The B-52s from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, are currently operating from a base in Britain and joined maritime naval exercises in the Baltic Sea called Baltops 15, the largest naval exercise by NATO forces in the region this year. The exercises are being held on and above international waters in the Baltic Sea and in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia--the Baltic states--and Poland. All four nations fear Russia's military aggression in Crimea and continuing destabilization in eastern Ukraine will be followed by Moscow's use of military force against them. The Baltic states last month asked NATO to permanently deploy up to 5,000 troops to the region to deter Russian aggression. Poland also wants a permanent NATO military presence. Russian generals told U.S. officials in March during a meeting in Germany that Russia would take destabilizing actions against the Baltic states if NATO troops are stationed there. Russia threatened to conduct a "spectrum of responses from nuclear to non-military," the Times of London reported, quoting a participant at the meeting. The Russian generals compared the situation in the Baltics to the conditions in Ukraine prior to the annexation of Crimea. Well, I guess there is precedence. |
| Posted by:Blossom Unains5562 |
| #1 * FYI BIGNEWSNETWORK > PUTIN SAYS ONLY AN INSANE PERSON WILL THINK THAT RUSSIA WILL ATTACK NATO. Yeeeuuup. Pragmatically, despite Murphy's Law, "Mahanism", + "Great Game" theres really no need at present for Darth Vlad = Russia to attack NATO, IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE US POTUS OBAMA IS AN ANTI-US US = ANTI-AMERICAN AMERIKAN OWG GLOBALIST ALREADY DEDICATED TO SSSHHHH ...CCCCCC PCORRECTLY-DENIABLY HELPING RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN EXPAND THEIR RESPECTIVE SPHERES OF INFLUENCE IN THIER REGIONS OR CONTINENTS AT THE EXPENCE OF THE US-WEST + ALLIES. US-N-ONLY-US STRATEGIC UNILATERAL OR SELF-RETREAT, FALLBACK, ETC, = OWG-NWO'SPACE GOVT-ORDER + "WORLD PEACE". RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN, OTHER? CAN'T RISE TO GLOBIES-DESIRED "US-STYLE" CO-SUPERPOWERHOOD UNLESS THE US ITSELF [Self?]RETREATS, DECLINES, OR OTHERWISE GIVES UP POWER-N-INFLUENCE, ETC. IN THEIR BACKYARDS. * E.G. SOUTH CHINA SEA > CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY = "WE [China] HAVEN'T BUILT ANY OVERDSEAS MILITARY BASES", as due to the mostly Pro-US, Anti-China or US, West-leaning NAM Govts-Nations in East Asia + IOR NOT giving China any, hence China began its island-improvement = reclamation activities in the SCS. CHINA IS UNLIKELY TO STOP ITS ATIVITIES IN THE SCS EVEN IFF IT MEANS WAR WID THE US. * OWG GLOBALISM = MILPOL OR GEOPOL "PARITY" WID THE US, N-O-T "INFERIORITY" TO THE US = CHINA WANTS ITS 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC AS BEFITTING ITS DESIRED GLOBAL POWER = "PAR WID THE US" OWG CO-SUPERPOWER STATUS. * FYI WORLD MILITARY FORUM > REPORT: CHINA DISPATCHES/DEPLOYS SURVEILLANCE SHIPS OFF HAWAII. in response to US-proposed SCS Air-Sea Patrols agz China's island-reclamation activities. versus * DRUDGEREPORT > US PENTAGON STRUGGLES FOR SOUTH CHINA SEA STRATEGY | [FT.com] US PENTAGON STRUGGLES TO COUNTER CHINA'S ISLAND-BUILDING. Again, CHINA-N-ONLY-CHINA MUST REVIEW + DECIDE WHAT ITS MILPOL OR GEOPOL PRIORITIES ARE - TRADE, OR DESIRED GLOBAL POWER STATUS. Iff China concedes in the SCS now, it does so knowing or recognizing that its ability in the future to achieve its "post-US" agenda will be that much harder or difficult as US Allies in East Asia + IOR likely get unilaterally STRONGER than at present. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-06-07 22:36 |